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Disney+HotStar Data Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Disney+HotStar Data Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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CodingStart here. 3 questions · ~28 min
Longest Subarray Sum Equals KMedium
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Find the longest contiguous subarray whose sum equals K using prefix sums and a hash map.

ArraysDDisney+HotStar
Detect Cycles in GraphsMedium

Explain how to detect cycles in directed and undirected graphs using DFS, recursion state, and parent tracking.

RecursionSearchingGraphsDDisney+HotStar
System Design and Coding FundamentalsHard

Assesses problem-solving skills across core coding and system design for data engineering.

system designAlgorithmsDDisney+HotStar
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Pipelines6 questions · ~56 min
Handle Late Data in BatchMedium

Approach for handling late-arriving records in a batch ETL pipeline without breaking correctness or forcing full reloads.

Batch ProcessingIdempotencyDependenciesDDisney+HotStar
Optimize Multi-Terabyte ETL PipelineMedium

Explain how you improved a slow ETL pipeline on multi-terabyte data, including bottleneck analysis, tuning choices, and validation.

ETL optimizationdata processingperformanceDDisney+HotStar
Design High-Throughput Event PipelineHard

Design a real-time event pipeline that can handle millions of events per second with sub-second latency.

data pipelineevent processinglatencyDDisney+HotStar
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System Design4 questions · ~38 min
SQL vs NoSQL for LoggingMedium

Evaluates decision-making across data stores for logging workloads.

database designDDisney+HotStar
Distributed Pipeline Failure HandlingHard

Tests resilience strategies for recovery, idempotency, and data correctness.

pipeline managementDDisney+HotStar
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